Analysis of Social Value of Green Slow Mobility

Abstract

With the aging population in Japan, people’s values regarding mobility are changing, and the introduction of Green Slow Mobility (GSM), which was initiated as a policy by the government in 2018, has not been sufficiently verified academically regarding its social acceptability and social effects. In this paper, after systematically organizing domestic case studies of GSM, we conduct a survey in Kiryu City, Gunma Prefecture, to analyze the social acceptability of GSM from the viewpoint of PSC criteria for considering and managing roads as social spaces. In addition to examining the social effects of introducing GSM in terms of changes in users’ lives and urban development, the structure in which the use of GSM brings about social effects is verified using structural equation modeling.